Real life dystopia has become so boring, people not directly involved intensify drama online to bring the conflict into their online lives.
An opinion piece I find quite fitting for Lemmy as well. I wonder how a “boring” just fact based rational social media would look like?
How is shitting on a genocidal autocratic apartheid regime “virtue signalling”?
The problem is more that they side with the genociders. Hamas is fucking evil. 1400 dead.
I think abortion lovers like them because they beheaded so many babies, idk, because nothing else makes sense. Maybe they just hate lgbtq people and want them executed? Or they want to oppress women?
In any case, siding with Hamas is either ignorant or straight up evil.
As far as I remember, there were people virtue-signaling this kind of conflict, even before the internet was a thing.
Picking reasons to create division is fun, fuck fundamentalism and governments - no innocent should die.
After much reflection, my response to both sides is a weary “What did you expect would happen?”
And both sides hate nothing more than the overwhelming apathy I have towards two sides who are objectively terrible kicking piss out of each other yet again.